10 DECEMBER 1910, page 23

What Is Man ? T

WHOEVER is responsible for publishing this posthumous book by Mark Twain has injured the memory of the great humorist. The author lays it down as an axiom that man is a machine......

A Great Inventor.t The Outlines Of Mr. Edison's Career Are

already known to most of us. Messrs. Dyer and Martin fill in the picture of the inventor with many interesting details. Prominent among these is what we may call the physical......

John Stuart Blackie.*

JOHN STUART BLAMED& was by nature something of a "free- lance," and he had the sort of education which suited him. Nothing could be more different from that which the average......

The Magazines.

THE most valuable political article in the new Nineteenth Century is Mr. Marriott's on the Conservative Party, which, curiously enough, is placed last of all. Mr. Marriott very......